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Mort Zuckerman deems recovery “phony,” star of “Rent” sells Tribeca pad for...
The Queensboro Bridge at night (Photo via Undercity) 1. Boston Properties’ Mort Zuckerman deems economic recovery “phony”: OPINION [WSJ] 2. “Rent” star who played Tom Collins sells Tribeca pad at...
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PR exec Levoff picks up $3.7M Upper East Side pad
Michael Levoff, 132 East 65th Street Michael Levoff, public relations professional and current vice president for public affairs at the Partnership for New York, has purchased a condominium at the...
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Hedge funds, private equity firms boost increased leasing in Midtown: Colliers
From left: Manhattan and Colliers’ president of the eastern region Joseph Harbert Despite the fact that large financial institutions continue to downsize, leasing is up in Manhattan’s priciest market,...
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Platinum Properties hires PR guru for luxury advice
From left: Dezireh Eyn, Khashy Eyn and Daniel Hedaya of Platinum Properties; Catherine Saxton Catherine Saxton, chairman of the public relations firm the Saxton Group, has joined residential brokerage...
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NYC brokers wrestle with new state title rules
From left: Diane Wildowsky, Frederick Peters and Jill Gullace UPDATE, July 17, 6:05 p.m.: Shortly after the New York State Department of State announced that brokers could no longer use honorary...
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Orlando Bloom rents townhouse on the Upper East Side
From left: Miranda Kerr, Orlando Bloom, Upper East Side Orlando Bloom has rented a townhouse on the Upper East Side, the New York Post reported. Bloom, whose star turn in “Romeo and Juliet” begins...
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Blackstone lures info services firm to former NYT building
Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman and 229 West 43rd Street Blackstone Group’s strategy of luring tech and new media-oriented tenants to the former New York Times building at 229 West 43rd Street...
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5Pointz in Long Island City inches closer to the wrecking ball
5Pointz in Long Island City 5Pointz, the graffiti-covered Long Island City warehouse, is inching ever closer to demolition, the New York Daily News reported. Helen Marshall, Queens Borough President,...
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St. Giles picks up eighth-floor space at 330 Fifth Ave.
330 Fifth Avenue St. Giles School, the Catholic educational institute sponsored by St. Giles Parish, is taking over the King’s College’s 11,880-square-foot eighth floor at 330 Fifth Avenue, the New...
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Housing starts tumble slightly in long-term upward trend
New home under construction Earlier today we saw housing starts crumble, falling 9.9 percent month-over-month (MoM) in June to an annualized 836,000. This widely missed expectations for a 5.5 percent...
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Lucky fig trees help draw buyers
Adelaide Polsinelli and a fig tree From the July issue: The fig tree, a symbol of knowledge in the Bible, has taken on yet another role: real estate selling point. Figs are drawing in buyers who give...
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Take a closer look at Zaha Hadid’s Jetsons-inspired High Line condos, Versace...
Rendering of 520 West 28th Street 1. Check out more of Zaha Hadid‘s designs for Related’s High Line condos [Fast Company] 2. Casa Casuarina, Versace’s Miami mansion, heading to auction in September...
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Strata at Mercedes House makes final leasing push: PHOTOS
From left: Anchor Associates’ Kelly Neptune, Justyna Czekaj of the Spire Group with guest, and Natalia Stoyanova of Spire (credit: Andrea Meggiato) Agents from across the city hobnobbed with executives...
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Telx signs lease at Rudin’s 32 Sixth Avenue in Tribeca
32 Sixth Avenue Telx has signed a lease for the 45,000-square-foot 10th floor of Rudin Management’s 32 Sixth Avenue grandee in north Tribeca, Crain’s reported. Robert Steinman, a vice president at...
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Clark Halstead sells his own UES townhouse
Interiors of 329 East 82nd Street; Inset: Clark Halstead Clark Halstead, the co-founder of residential brokerage Halstead Property, has sold his own Upper East Side pad at 329 East 82nd Street for $5...
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MNS picks up LA broker to head new Williamsburg office
The MNS office at 165 Bedford Avenue (inset: Jonathan Tager) UPDATED, 2:52 p.m., July 18: MNS has hired Jonathan Tager, who was most recently a sales agent in Los Angeles, as the managing director for...
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Revised Midtown East rezoning plan allows for residential use, broader air...
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Central Synagogue, St. Bartholomew’s Church The City Planning Commission unveiled an amended version of its Midtown East rezoning proposal that, in an effort to assuage...
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Dolly Lenz is seeing a house-flipping “frenzy”: VIDEO
Flipping is back, according to broker Dolly Lenz, who appeared on CNBC to discuss the phenomenon of homebuyers selling properties within six months of a purchase. In the first half of 2013, sellers...
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Ex-City Connections agent grows new firm
The RA team, from left: Arthur Vinuelas, LaQuet Pringle, Kelly Armendariz, Christine Ra, Sam Cahn and Stephan Watts From the July issue: RA Partners NY, a full-service brokerage that launched last...
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Manhattan investment sale prices up 20 percent since boom
Dan Fasulo of Real Capital Analytics New York City real estate may not be quite back to the dizzying heights of the 2007 peak, but the climb back seems to be strong and swift. Property sales activity...
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